Le Spectre
2004 - Directors : Bourgeais, Isabelle - Faggianelli, Tristan
Choreographer(s) : Hoche, Lionel (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse
Le Spectre
2004 - Directors : Bourgeais, Isabelle - Faggianelli, Tristan
Choreographer(s) : Hoche, Lionel (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse
Spectre (Le)
A contemporary vision of the legendary Le spectre de la rose. This is the mise en abyme of an image so compelling it results in obsession. I want to suggest, not without humour, an intense and tormented interior journey, stimulated and even struck by memory, image. In order to steal from time and history too obvious an adherence of the project, I wanted, in addition to the purely choreographic and plastic new reading, the score to be completely rewritten on the themes of the original, with a burlesque allusion to film music. The original version then becomes in turn its own memory: another mise en abyme. Memory and desire are the essential driving forces behind this “adventure”.
The scenography is a reduction of the original proposal, and this room that the dream will enter is also the antechamber of the imaginary, that inner space, in the hollow of memory. Of this room suggested by luminous edges, only the idea of volume and space remains, an open box (Pandora’s?) where memories and desires flow away and peter out. Of the window that introduces the spectre, a gateway to the hereafter, only the white rectangle of the screen remains. On this virgin space, we see metaphorical reminiscences break through and blossom, composing a parallel poetry. The screen window, is an interface between the visible and the unconscious, where a virtual universe, instantaneous and temporary, takes shape. This version proposes both a sketch and an extension of the original work, glazed with a more abstract contemporaneity.
Source CCN - Ballet de Lorraine 2003 - 2004
Hoche, Lionel
Lionel Hoche was born in 1964 in Paris and in 1978 began his dance studies at the Paris Opera Ballet School.
He joined the Nederlands Dans Theater in 1983, where he danced under the direction of Jiri Kylian. During his six years with the company, he also collaborated with or danced pieces by other prestigious choreographers such as William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Jerome Robbins, Hans van Manen, Jose Limon, Uwe Scholz...
Lionel Hoche undertook his first choreographic work in 1988, "U should Have Left the Light on", for the Nederlands Dans Theater II - work that was subsequently performed by the Companhia de Dança de Lisboa, the Nomades le Loft Vevey company and the Balleto del'Opera di Roma.
In 1989 Lionel Hoche joined Astrakan, Daniel Larrieu's company, with whom he danced until 1991. In 1992 he became Larrieu's assistant for Attentat Poétique, created for the Paris Opera Ballet.
Lionel Hoche founded his own company that same year and presented "Prière de tenir la main courante" at the International Cannes Dance Festival, who commissioned and produced this work.
From 1998-2002 Cie Lionel Hoche was the resident dance company at the Esplanade Opera Theatre in Saint-Etienne, then from 2005 until 2008 in Maison de la Musique in Nanterre, from 2010 to 2013 in Opera de Massy, from 2013 til 2016 in Centre des Arts in Enghien les Bains. The company just began a new collaboration with two cities: Villetaneuse and Pierrefitte sur Seine.
Lionel Hoche has worked as a freelance choreographer for various companies since 1990. Much in demand, he has created over eighty new commissioned works for more than thirty of Europe and Asia's most prestigious ballets, such as the Paris Opera Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Batsheva Dance Company, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the Zurich Ballet, the National Ballet of Finland, the Compañia Nacional de Danza (Madrid), the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Ballet Philippines...
Besides his choreographic work, he began a personal study of fine art in 1988, and since 1992 designs the set for some of his choreographies.
In January 2002, Lionel Hoche received the distinction of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, a knighthood for his contribution to the promotion of dance in France and abroad.
Source : Mémé Banjo website
More information: www.memebanjo.com
Bourgeais, Isabelle
Faggianelli, Tristan
CCN - Ballet de Lorraine
Since acquiring the CCN title in 1999, the Centre Chorégraphique National - Ballet de Lorraine has dedicated itself to supporting contemporary choreographic creation. As of July 2011 the organization is under the general and artistic direction of Petter Jacobsson.
The CCN – Ballet de Lorraine and its company of 26 dancers is one of the most important companies working in Europe, performing contemporary creations while retaining and programming a rich and extensive repertory, spanning our modern history, made up of works by some of our generations most highly regarded choreographers.
The CCN functions as an art center and venue for multiple possibilities in the fields of research, experimentation and artistic creation. It is a platform open to many different disciplines, a space where the many visions of dance of today may meet.
More information : http://ballet-de-lorraine.eu
Le spectre
Choreography : Lionel Hoche
Interpretation : CCN-Ballet de Lorraine
Original music : Jérôme Charles
Lights : Lucy Carter
Costumes : Lazare Garcin
Other collaborations : Images Renaud Bezy
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